While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.

Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised in the church of Scientology and always obeyed what she was instructed to do. At age twenty-one she risked everything by leaving Scientology and now speaks out about her life, the Church, and her dramatic escape to reveal details about a religion that has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide.

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda.

In the wake of a series of murders involving covert intelligence informers, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo wonders about vague similarities between the killings and a recent case involving a pair of CIA traitors.

Let's-read-and-find-out-science series. Explains the construction and purpose of the International Space Station and the life of the astronauts on board.

Journalist and former U.S. State Department official, Ronan Farrow, explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.

The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term space flight, the devastating effects on the body, and the necessary isolation that path entails.

With a non-aggression pact in place that keeps Saudi involvement in 9/11 quiet in exchange for oil, Mitch Rapp undergoes a covert mission as a traitor to keep the peace when evidence emerges that the Saudis are funding ISIS.

The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...